Paris walks with a guide or a local

All year round, discover the different districts in Paris and in Seine-Saint-Denis through history, shops, architecture and the everyday life of the locals. Accompanied by professional guides, actors or locals, enter into the soul and atmosphere of the place, meet and chat with the town people (inhabitants, shop owners), discover the different world cultures and heritage of the town.

Walk through a Paris district with a guide

Walking tours in the multicultural neighborhoods of Paris and its suburbs will allow you discover the different communities that live there: little Mali at La Goutte d'or, the Chinese quarter in Belleville rue Cail...

Discover also the different sites to be visited in Paris, its original suburbs and discover the off -beaten tracks too. Ramble through Saint-Denis market and its stalls with goods from all over the world just a stone’s throw from the St Denis Basilica; discover the true face of Montreuil in the company of a guide two steps from Paris... during one of our original urban walking tours.

Original themed tours of Paris and around

A riche programme of walking tours and visits on an original theme are proposed all through the year: cinema, architecture, street-art, global city...

Ramble around Paris in the company of your guide to discover the secrets of the neighbourhood around a theme. A guided tour on Jazz in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a guided visit on the theme of cinema in Montmartre, an architectural themed visit in the 19th district of Paris or a street-art tour in Ménilmontant, Saint-Ouen or along Canal Saint-Denis accompanied by a street art-artist or art enthusiast... Here is an overview of the various urban guided walking tours that are proposed and which are regularly renewed.

Free walking tours in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis with a local

Greeters are locals who will take you on a discovery tour of their neighbourhood for free. These small group walking tours visit the non-tourist areas in Paris. You can also become a greeter and show-off your neighbourhood to tourists.

Visit Paris and its region

Would you prefer to walk around Paris or Seine-Saint-Denis without a guide? Take a map and walk down the streets, roads and the paths of Grand Paris on foot. Follow in the steps of the architect Niemeyer from Paris to Bobigny. Walk alongside Canal Ourcq on foot, by bike or by boat to discover street-art frescoes, take a Paris/Pantin tour on the theme of cinema.

History of our urban tours

In 2006, Seine-Saint-Denis Tourism and its many partners (towns of Seine-Saint-Denis, tourist offices and many associations/clubs...) joined together to propose a varied program on urban walks under the label Douce Banlieue. The objective was to offer the general public (locals, visitors, tourists) a new-look on Seine-Saint-Denis and more widely the North-East of Paris. Walking tour suggestions are constantly being renewed around new themes (cinema, urban art, heritage and memory...).

The choice of the label Douce Banlieue was not fortuitous. It is the title of a book by Gérard Mordillat and Jacqueline Jacquet, a souvenir album of the exhibition organized in 2004 by the town of Saint-Denis on the history of the suburbs through oral testimonies and photographs collected from the inhabitants of Saint-Denis.

With Douce Banlieue, a network of professionals has emerged with exchanges around their mutual experiences, pooling together promotional and communication resources as well as an observation laboratory to witness new forms of urban tourism.